Taxation and female labour supply in Jamaica: The econometrics of nonlinear budget constraints

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Central Bank of Barbados

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Bridgetown, Barbados

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Central Bank of Barbados

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2000

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155-65

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Abstract

Considers the impact of taxes on work effort for a sample of employed women in Jamaica, employing the Hausman (1981) method. This approach accounts for the complete form of the budget constraint and uses maximum likelihood methods to estimate the labour supply function. The model also accounts for measurement error as well as heterogeneity of preference and employs both a nonlinear and a linear specification.....read more